Commonplace

Description

Commonplace is a digital platform for citizen/community engagement and co-design. Commonplace's enables communty leaders, organizations, and projects to reach their communities, engage them around ideas, suggestions, concerns, analyse their feedback, and collaborate on future ideas. Its tools support surveys, communications, geolocated sentiment mapping, translating diverse voices into key themes, dashboards and reporting capabilities. The platform aims to promote dialogue also speeds up projects by getting local buy-in faster. Commonplace has supported over 3500 projects across 8 million visitors and 60+ themes, from development consultations, to wind and solar farms, community services, infrastructure, local planning, transport, and many other areas.

What Makes it Regenerative?

• fosters community
• supports coordination & consensus
• helps localize
• enables access & participation

Business Model

Commonplace offers a subscription model based on time and scope of use, including multiple tiered plans which vary by advanced functionalities like deeper data analysis, support, and larger project management and customization capabilities. It also offers a free service with limited features.

Risks & Limitations

• Uk-based platform may overlook those that speak other languages or those without reliable internet or digital devices, potentially excluding certain demographics from participating fully.
• Online platforms can sometimes favor those who are more comfortable with technology or more vocal, potentially underrepresenting certain viewpoints. data and ai-powered insights could be biased depending on the quality and diversity of data collected on the platform.
• Subject to complex community moderation needs as platforms can be susceptible to the spread of misinformation or disruptive behavior given the stakes of development, certain groups or individuals might try to manipulate the platform to promote their own agendas.
• Data security and privacy risks underlie all platforms, and inherent power structures around government/civic engagement could exacerbate these risks